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divisive

[dih-vahy-siv, -vis-iv] / dɪˈvaɪ sɪv, -ˈvɪs ɪv /
ADJECTIVE
dissenting
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All that is properly perceived by the visive faculty amounts to no more than colours, with their variations and different proportions of light and shade.

From A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision by Berkeley, George

Let intellectual tubes give thee a glance of things which visive organs reach not.

From Books and Characters French and English by Strachey, Giles Lytton

Democritus and Epicurus suppose that sight is caused by the insertion of little images into the visive organ, and by the reception of certain rays which return to the eye after meeting the object.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

The visive faculty considered with reference to its immediate objects may be found to labour of two defects.

From A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision by Berkeley, George




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